[AccessD] Photo Management

Hi William:

I am not sure precisely what you want but the wife (and I for a small part)
keep a lot of photos; many from travelling, art and family. We have well
over 30,000 photos. 

The program we use to manage all these photo, from anywhere in the network,
has an excellent cataloguing system, a good set of filters, format options,
sending, emailing, printing, even face recognition, is Picasa, from Google:

http://picasa.google.ca/

It can also, to the best of my knowledge work or be made to work on any
platform.

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Benson
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 1:10 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Photo Management

 I would not be surprised if this has been tackled either here or on other
forums, but I am looking for a way to manage photos and move them from
wherever I encounter them in the windows explorer (often showing in preview
mode) to distinct folders in a variety of locations without performing all
required actions at one time. For example, if I encounter 6 among 36 files
which I think should be moved to a folder called "Friends" I would like to
tag them in a way that I can move them all at one time, wherever they are,
even when I am no longer looking at the folder they are located in. So I am
envisioning some sort of file managing system which is part database, part
OS file system manager. I thought Access might be able to do this, perhaps
showing me the contents of folders (items which are images) and loading an
image control with the image, then I would choose something from a drop
down which would help me tag the item while also storing information about
where it had been, what it had been named, perhaps giving me a field which
lets me rename it (while testing that I am not duplicate naming it) - but
doing nothing to the original file until I am ready to execute the
operation hich moves and renames all files at one time.

I have found I cannot do this conveniently through the Operating System,
and I cannot review planned changes without of course actually executing
the changes - by which point in time it is too late. Such as moving
something from folder A to folder B and renaming it from X to Y... all the
original information is lost and there is no way to undo the change later.
But if I could retain the old name and location, I could "reset" the
operation" by reversing what I had done.

I think a VBA application would help with a project of this nature. Anyone
have any ideas how to approach this without reinventing the wheel?
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